Warner Bros.’ horror film The Curse of La Llorona easily captured the weekend box office with a better-than-expected $26.5 million, but this was the weakest Easter holiday weekend since 2005.

We round up geek movie news from recent days, with news of one movie shut down and others moving ahead.

Warner Bros. kid-friendly superhero film Shazam! topped the box office for the second week in a row as only one of four new films over-performed.

Just five weeks after Marvel Studios launched its highly successful Captain Marvel , Warner Bros. appears to have a created a hit with C.C. Beck and Bill Parker’s “original” Captain Marvel , who is now known as “Shazam."

When is a film that finishes #1 at the weekend box office with $45 million considered a disappointment? When, like Tim Burton’s Dumbo , the film costs $170 million to produce.

After falling badly behind 2018’s record pace during the first two months of the year, the box office has turned around in March thanks to Captain Marvel and now Jordan Peele’s R-rated horror film Us , which debuted with an estimated $70.3 million.

These are estimate of the sales on comic books by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during January 2019.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during February 2019.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Captain Marvel dropped just 54% from its $153 million opening, earning $69.3 million to drive its domestic total to $266.2 million, powering the top 12 films to a 7% gain over the same weekend last year.

Despite the increasingly obvious and pathetic attempts of anti-feminist online trolls, who flooded online sites with negative “in-person” reviews, Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel revitalized the fading 2019 box office with a massive $153 million debut